Compelling Reasons for UK Inward Investment after COVID-19

Multinational enterprises operate in increasingly competitive and complex environments, and the role of R&D can be vital in the creation, adaptation or adoption of knowledge across different foreign locations ¿ especially during pandemics like the coronavirus. This book explores motivations of research and development (R&D) as well as foreign direct investment (FDI) in a developed country, with emphasis on the United Kingdom.Based on an empirical study, Irobiko Chimezie Kingsley examined current thinking in international business studies by shifting focus from globalization and free trade to the concentration of R&D and FDI in a single location, using concepts to explain the interplay of strategic and location-specific motivations. The author also combined innovative methodologies and firm-level data to enable empirical evaluation of the importance of UK inward investment after COVID-19.